I will not blame the employers when it’s clearly the fault of the government when they allow such practices, when abuse of this system is so endemic it’s got to be a policy problem. I agree that employers could be expected to be more honest in their use of it but that’s a little bit naive really. If I ran a business and could get someone in for free or someone that would cost me around €400 a week I know which one I’d chose.

Its not just jobsbridge . Companies like this are supportrd by the taxpayer through schemes like Family Income Supplement and rent allowance. If someone works and claims dole they are seen as a pariah. If you own a company and avoid paying your staff a living wage by leaving it to the state to prop up your business while you profit , somehow thats seen as acceptable.

Yes, have a look on the food safetly authority website. Have a look at the legislation regarding MSM (Mechanically separated meat) It tells you what is allowed to pass as meat. Also you could go into a centra and ask to see the ingredience on the packet of chicken. They may say “fillet” but they don’t list the ingredience nor do they list the proceedures used in production.

Thats not chicken you’re eating.

The odd time they actually have any chicken left.

@fizi_water – well this doesn’t give much away about what is actually in it but here’s what it looks like before gets crumbed and cooked. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/pink-slime-photo-isnt-what-it-appears-to-be/2012/03/09/gIQApJJd1R_blog.html
I can only imagine what they use, chemical wise to get to this result!

Liz is your name Carr or Corr?

Well fizi its like this. Next time you are in a supermarket or butchers take a look at what pieces of chicken are for sale like whole chicken, chicken breast, legs, wings, liver….etc. Now besides the feathers picture everything else that you don’t see all ground up, bleached white and moulded in to certain shapes then breadcrumbed or processed in to meat slices. There you go. Enjoy.

Fair enough. I did think it was real chicken. Thanks for posting that article, Centra have a lot to answer for if that is the case.

@ sluazcanal – It’s not even Centra that need to answer for this alone. The Food Safey Authority says that Irish Foods are allowed to contain this “meat” as long as the calcium levels are under a certain amount, therefore there should be no pureed bones. When the whole Mad Cow disease thing happened they did stop spinal cord tissue being used but thats about it. I think you’ll find this product in almost all fast food places and all frozen food/cheap meat products as it is designed to look like the real thing in shape and texture.

Stop it ye are ruining chicken “fillet” rolls for me :-(

@ Shane King – I’m sorry, it is still kind of Chicken though just with some added extras!

Thanks Liz lol what am I going to eat now there, is their tuna any safe or is it another blend of fish bones, tails, eyes and whatever else :-O ?

I knew it has bit too smooth texture to be real chicken breast but I thought perhaps this is like 50-70 % chicken breast and rest is breadcrumbs, maybe some flour whatever else but from acceptable ingredients. If this is made from the same pink slime as cheap chicken nuggets then they surely won’t see me buying this again. I think it should be criminal offence to advertise it as chicken fillet roll at their windows. As far as I know chicken fillet is totally different product then to what they serve…

I don’t think the entire product is made from pink slime but I’m not sure. I’d say there is probably some actual chicken and flour etc in the mix.

That’s how the horse meat got into food through those fillers. The law seems fairly lax on this area of food safety.

Some day they will realise the effect these products have on bodies, apart from being revolting to look at. There is some interesting, stomach churning articles on what they actually use to achieve this slime. It’s pretty difficult to avoid a lot of chemicals that is used in food but I would think that over processed foods would be definitely something to avoid if for nothing more than its bad labelling.

I recently read an article that to be able to say that something fruity is made with real fruit the requirement are as little as taking one slice of fruit, leaving it in a petri dish and taking a minuscule amount and adding it to a vat of all the other bits. That constitutes made with real fruit. Basically trace elements of that product. It’s not just the Irish government who have it wrong either the majority of food safety authorities condone this because at the end of the day, it’s not deception, anyone can read it if they want.